The organizers of GR8 in the US conference, Bill Turner and Shaun Jurgemeyer, announced today that Dave Klein has been named the conference Sponsorship Coordinator.

Dave is a consultant helping organizations of all sizes to develop applications more quickly (and have more fun doing it) with Grails. Dave has been involved in enterprise software development for over 16 years. He has worked as a developer, architect, project manager, mentor and trainer. Dave has presented at user groups and national conferences. The founder of the Gateway Groovy Users, in St. Louis, a contributing editor of GroovyMag, and author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide.

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431.